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It's hard to believe May is almost over! I have lots of exciting news for you this week, but first I'd like to share a sneak peek of a new quilting workshop that will be coming out June 1st.

The Mega Star Walking Foot Workshop is going to feature 12 videos guiding you through every step to piecing and machine quilting the Mega Pinwheel Star quilt. Best of all - we quilt this entirely with a walking foot so the quilting is very easy on your home machine.

I challenged myself while creating this workshop to keep the quilting simple and fast and I quilted my Mega Pinwheel star in less than six days; plus I was shooting videos at the same time!

I can't wait to teach you how to plan a simple quilting design, baste, and quilt using your home machine and walking foot.

This new workshop will be coming out next week so keep an eye out for our next newsletter.

It's Quilty Box time! This month's Quilty Box came with an awesome collection of gear from Alex Anderson plus ten fat quarters of her beautiful Mirage fabric. I decided to create a very easy Disappearing Nine Patch quilt using these ten fat quarters plus ten fat quarters of solid fabrics I had on hand.

Click Here to watch how I pieced my Disappearing Nine Patch blocks in this new video.  (James makes a cameo appearance reciting some hilarious magic words!)

Creating this quilt is so easy and fast. First you create jumbo Nine Patch Quilt Blocks, then Poof! make them disappear to create the quarter block shapes, then arrange and piece the blocks together to create the Disappearing Nine Patch Quilt.

There are lots of ways you can arrange your Disappearing Nine Patch quilt and I played around with many creative layouts. 

Click Here to find more pictures and how you can rotate the blocks to create different effects.

When you quilt a shape, then quilt around it again with a parallel line that is called Echoing. This is one of the most important techniques to learn in machine quilting because evenly spaced lines are used in so many different designs, and it looks really pretty on any style of quilt.

See those rows and rows of evenly spaced lines in the background? That's echo quilting!

In this last video on my Peaceful Goddess quilt blocks, I'm quilting the background with a Super Spiral on the Grace Qnique 14+. This is unique because I usually quilt this design with a walking foot on my home machine.

But with practice you can quilt continuous echoes like this with free motion quilting! I found the open toe foot on the Grace Qnique created a perfect spacing for lines around 3/8 inch apart. That was perfect for the scale of my Peaceful Goddess blocks so I quilted around the appliqued circle, then around and around to fill in the background completely.

Click Here to see how it works in this new long arm quilting tutorial.

I'm calling this cool quilting design Fanfare! I love designs that fill based on spirals because once you set the starting lines, the rest of the design is super easy to quilt.

Wow, so many projects this week! I hope you enjoy the free patterns. In addition to our brand new Mega Star Walking Foot Workshop coming out next week, June's block for the Machine Quilting Block Party will also go live.

Stay tuned...

Let's go quilt,

Leah Day